GREEN INITIATIVES: A BETTER LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT
THE 2021 MGA KWENTONG KLIMA-LIKASAN TUNGO SA KATATAGAN: CLIMATE AND DISASTER RESILIENCE AWARDS SPECIAL CITATION FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION Zia N. Sagoso “GREEN INITIATIVES: A BETTER LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT” Zia’s environmental journey started when she was in high school. Throughout the years, she has led and attended environmental projects and activities such as land and coastal clean-up drives, tree growing, Mangrove planting, environmental symposiums, plenaries, camps, leadership trainings and awareness campaigns. “Adopt A River Project” is one of her notable initiatives which she started in February 2017. In March 2019, she implemented its 2nd phase by planting 100 Bamboo propagules solicited from DENR CENRO General Santos City. Another initiative is the Mangrove on the MOVE: Mitigating climate change, Obstructing storm surge, Valorizing marine life and Embarking mangrove mass growing. It was an effort to rehabilitate mangrove ecosystems back to their productive ecosystems which provide numerous good and services both to the marine environment and people. Zia also launched her vermicomposting project “Shoot the Plastic Bottle Cage” and solid waste management campaign through the “Eco-Room-to-Room Campaign” in September 2016 and June 2018 respectively. Throughout her journey, she learned that you do not get tired when you love what you do. Zia wanted to fulfill her desires of helping her community and environment through the leadership skills which were molded from years of acquired learnings and experiences. She is a reminder that every organism is important and we, humans, who are the highest intellectual beings, should do our part to save, protect, conserve and preserve everyone’s life.
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